We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Whats fascinating is that when you write a script, its almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but youre not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.

Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.

I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven