I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

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

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

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

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.