Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

Americans didn't really have any experience with something as basic as "community."

The problem with prostitution in my experience is that it's often unsatisfying.