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.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

I like the word 'underground'... 'independent' carries a stigma of whininess. 'Underground' means a good time.

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

I don't think I had a bad influence on anybody. I made people feel better about themselves.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.