We wanted to finish off well. I'm just amazed by how much fight we had at the end of the week. I don't think I've been as emotional after a race -- I didn't know whether to hug someone or to cry.

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.

Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."

Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God).

For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?