Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

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

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.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

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