I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.