My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything." We're all kind of in our own narratives.

I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

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

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

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

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