I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

The truth will only be told over a career.

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.