I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Music gives infinite strength.

I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.

Man, it just cost me five dollars to beat my own meat... God bless the United States of America.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

The more uncomfortable I feel, that's where I know the magic is.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

We have parts of our system which are overwhelmed by regulation. It wasn't the absence of regulation that was the problem. It was despite the presence of regulation you got huge risks built up.