It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.
I'm the most awkward man alive.
'Sugarland Express' is a movie that I really loved and watched a lot.
I have alopecia. My hair fell out when I was in college and I didn't take it so well.
I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.
I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.
The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.
I'd like to think I have a strange affinity for the embarrassing. Not sure what that says about me. But I like the awkward, uncomfortable comedy.
I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.
I'm not someone who's gone to Comic Con as a devotee.
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'
For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.
I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.
I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men out of us, so you're kind of free to not grow up that way if you don't want to.
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
