I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

I like marginal characters, I like real people. I learn more from talking to my plumber when he comes to fix my toilet than I do from meeting a movie star. I think my movies are in the same vein as that.

One of our favorite Joe Strummer quotes was, "No input, no output." Meaning, we're going to hear a band, we're going to go to a museum, or we're going to go hang out with some writer that we admire. We're going to get some input, because if we don't, then we have nothing. It's a circle. It's a respiratory thing.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.