If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and ….

Basically there are no stars anymore. The audience is the star..

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now..

I think Americana music is music that is generally more singer/songwriter oriented. It has more to do with the songwriting. The music, it's more like….

I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it..

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing..

Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't h….

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense..

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas..

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with spec….

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it..

People over 40 stay home and watch television, that's why there are no movies out there..

Every character I play is me, always has been..

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies..

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets..

I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of t….

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid..

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I do….

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy..

You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're….

So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and ….