I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.