I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.