As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

As a boy, I was ashamed to wear glasses. I memorized the eye chart, and then on the test they asked essay questions.

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.