Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.

What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.