If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

I'm interested in music as an extension of character.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.