If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.