People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

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

The indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

My job is to say, 'This is how I see the world. Do you agree?'

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.

In my spare time, I smoke acres of weed.