I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.