Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

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

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

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.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

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.