"Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same."

"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art."

"When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries."

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."

"I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly."

"I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think."

"I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word."