Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.