You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.

You have to be insane to direct.