You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

I never got along in school really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.

I've signed peoples' parole cards at book signings and it's very touching.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

I think middle America has changed very, very much. I think people are way more open-minded. I think - I think it's because the Internet. I think they're exposed to so much. All the men talked about how much they love their wife, which I don't hear all the time in art communities.

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.