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.

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.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

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.

I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.