If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

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.

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.

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

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

It's not like someday my kid's gonna be standing over my grave, and somebody's gonna hang her a folded flag and say, "You know what? This is 'cause he did 24 hours straight on Twitter." But it's just one of those little personal victories, like, "I wonder if I can do this." And I did it. A stupid goal, but I accomplished it. Life's all about...for me, at least...having very stupid achievable goals. That way, you always feel like a winner.