I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

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.

No mistakes can be make during rehearsals, only progress toward what works best.

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

I think people should have the right to bear arms, but they should be limited as to what kinds of guns they can have.

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.