Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.