“I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.”

“I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.”

“It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.”

“I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.”

“Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.”

“You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.”

“In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.”

“So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.”

“I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.”

“All these people who say success changes people well, no, it just magnifies what's there.”