In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

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.

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

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.