Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself.

The way you get through having a shitty job is to laugh a lot and goof around.

Life is often confusing and sad, and I'm a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say.

I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.