There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

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

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.