Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.