People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.