If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.