Yeah, I try to be really calm.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

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

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.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.