I know you’re supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don’t do the other stuff, but weed is good.
I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.
Everybody’s got one killer story. It doesn’t take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
There’s something to be said for failing. It’s not the failure you feel, it’s the failure that people project when something disappoints. You’re back to ground zero, where there’s no expectations, and that’s where I like to be.
If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.
I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I’ll never be thin. Let’s be honest.
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.
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.
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.
And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed.
Haven’t two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can’t convert people to anything – whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
Dudes know I’m not a threat. Chicks know I’m not a threat.
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.
When you’re an artist, all you’re trying to do is self-express.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that’s that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
I’ve always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I’m feeling in the moment.
I say what other people won’t.
Generally, I wake up, honestly it’s creepy, but I wake up around 4:20.