And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.