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.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

All I've learned is that you need the studio system sometimes, if your budget is a certain size, and other films you can do independently. When I think of a studio, I generally think of distribution. Since I'm a director, I have a similar creative experience on every film I do, because I can control that. But then it's a different film, I think, as it reaches the public, depending on the way it's marketed. I don't know. I haven't learned much of anything. Sometimes you need them, sometimes you don't. Sometimes they want you, most of the time they don't.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.