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

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

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

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.