I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

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 think that taking night trains or meeting someone on the road is pretty romantic. I've done a couple of things like that. I've surprised someone in Paris. And hopefully, when you surprise someone, they're happy to see you.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

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

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making 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.