I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.