I'm never at a loss for new projects.

I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.