I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
If you’re alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
Don’t let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.
I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.
More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can’t control are the costs of marketing.
I feel like if you’re in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.
I grew up in a pretty gay world – my brother’s gay and he’s been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years.
T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it’s like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.
I didn’t get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.
All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what’s there.
Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.
If you’re lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.
I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that’s very image-conscious. It’s a thin person’s world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.
Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.
You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can’t get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it’s so crushing.
Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.
In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.
Live a “Why not?” life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
There’s a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.