People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it..

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

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….

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..

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low..

I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to….

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, ….

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 silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you..

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey..

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to r….

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it..

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

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved..

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 m….

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon..

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won..

Don't go where the puck's been; go where it's gonna be.

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..

And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed..

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder..