It's important to control yourself because life gets too complicated if you don't, but the impulse is often there for people. Some say society should be more open. That doesn't work either.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.

I'm awash in self-contempt!

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.