I saw School of Rock, and I was like, why haven't I worked with Richard Linklater already? Then by the time I got him I was like, I'm really pissed off I feel like you owe me some retroactive swag. He gave me the 10-year anniversary "Dazed and Confused" T-shirt, which I still wear with relish.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

And last but not the least

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.