If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

People always ask me if I hate the nuns. Do I make my movies extra dirty to piss them off? I always say no, that's not the point. To a Catholic, a movie is only dirty if it makes you want to have sex more. If it makes you feel sick, disgusted, ashamed of your own body, then it's not a dirty movie at all. It's a Catholic movie. And I make very Catholic movies.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.