My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. It's ridiculous. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

It's good filmmaking when you don't have to say anything and you can still tell the story.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

When the ship is sinking and you're forced to choose sides, the new solution is to jump from island to island to island. You don't have to pick.

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.