There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.

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.

If I die on my way to the dance, it will be better than to survive having never lifted my feet.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Sometimes we are fortunate enough to pick our own extended family. We call them as our friends.

I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

I don't do event dressing, because every day is an event.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.