I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

I'm from the '60s, but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa.

Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.