The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can. You can push it through, and you can hire the right people.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.