"Social critics don't mean a thing to me. It's really easy to ignore them, because I believe in what I'm doing 100%. So any naysayers for the public good can just fuck off."

"I am a writer. That's what I do. It's a writer's job not just to write about himself but to look at the rest of humanity and explore it—other people's way of talking, the phrases they use. And my head…"

"If you have the passion to do it, and you do it and it doesn't work out—I worked for 3 years on a 16mm movie that became nothing but guitar picks. And I was very disappointed when I realized it wasn't…"

"Insects too. Unless I'm paying to see some bizarro documentary, I'm not paying to see real death. Part of the way that this all works is that it's all just make believe. That's why I can stand the vio…"

"I'm not a politician. I'm not a thought leader. I'm a filmmaker."