I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.

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.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

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.