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.

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

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

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 dreams in life.

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.

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.

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

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

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

If you are unaware of what's within, you will be shown in the mirror of your near future life experience. Wiser to keep a step ahead.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

The energy of the universe is constant.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.