I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

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

I don't trust anyone that hasn't been to jail at least once in their life.

Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.

I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me, but a few have.

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.

What's fascinating to me is that in rich-kid schools, it's better to be gay. No one is discriminated against because they're gay in a rich-kid school. But in poor-kid schools, it's often not the same. So being gay is a class issue now.