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

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

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

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.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.