I want to make a film about a factory worker.

I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.

I remember daydreaming out in the outfield: I wish I had more time. I want to read 'The Brothers Karamazov.'

There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.