The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.
One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.
I always thought that I had a pretty diverse body of work, I mean, as far as subject matter. Teenage rock and roll movie; romance; '20s Western. On paper it looks different, but then there's similarities in the vibe of them.
A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.
I've done my part to 'ruin' Austin.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.
When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.
It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we should've taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn't do it then, and we can't now.
Here in Central Texas, you drive west, you get the desert; you drive east, you get the woods; you've got water, you've got urban environments, you've got country. So you can hit a lot of notes.
We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.
I'm not enough of one of those public personalities who feels as though he's been one-dimensionalized. I don't feel that strongly enough.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
It was always kind of sad when your favorite punk rockers, like Jello Biafra or someone, would say they hate something you like. It was, 'Oh, I thought we were on the same page.'
My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.
Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.
