Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

Sooner or later our dream will become a true, (Independence)

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

I fully support Donald Trump and Mike Pence administration. I think they're going to do a lot of great things very quickly.

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.