You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.