I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.

With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary.

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've always had a soft spot for comic books.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.