Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.

You're like a turd that won't flush.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.