“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I’ve never thought that. For me it’s always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

If you look at the types of directors out there, I’m not as weird as most of them.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case,

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios

I wanted money without the job.

The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd.

Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..

We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.