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.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.