I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

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

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.

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.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

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.

If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?