Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed..

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..

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….

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up..

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in m….

Failure is success training..

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or som….

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 fee….

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express..

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking..

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due..

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..

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've….

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, ….

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream..

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience..

Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't h….

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest d….

I say what other people won't..

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie..