If many people love me, then I must be important.

I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service, but giving their clients spiritual help. It's almost like being an actor, playing a different part for each trick.

I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.