And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us.

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.