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

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

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

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

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.

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.