I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

This movie [Don Jon] played at Sundance and South by Southwest and Berlin. And it just played - well...by the time it played at Toronto recently, it was already done. But getting to watch it with a thousand people is hugely informative.