You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.