I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

My girlfriend wants an open relationship. I said no way. What kind of man would I be if I had to tell my friends I date you?

I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.