I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.