I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

It's frustrating when people get upset with me about not going out to DVD - the reason is that I plan to tour with the films for many, many years, not just a month or a week. Literally years. And as soon as I would put it out on DVD, it would ruin the financial possibilities of me making it a theatrical event. Whereas the book, the publishing of a screenplay, would not cause that problem.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

A geek by definition is somebody who eats live animals. I?ve never eaten live animals.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

When I started acting in the film industry when I was 16 years old, in 1980, I was going to all the revival theaters in Los Angeles. They were playing mostly films from the '60s and '70s, some from the early '20s and '30s, before that Hays commission. Those films did question things a lot, and there definitely was a switch in 1934. You can see very distinctly in 1934, it's harder to understand what the real culture was. Films made before 1934, you can really kind of see the racism, sexism, drug use, etc. that was going on at that time. And then it was all stopped.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.