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.

And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

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

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

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.