I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Stars have their moments then they die.

I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture.