I just love movies, so suddenly, you're political about movies, and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated. 
One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity. 
I liked hockey, and I still like hockey. 
I know you're supposed to tell kids not to do drugs, but, kids, do it! Do weed! Don't do the other stuff, but weed is good 
I don't have to write to South West buddy. In an hour South West gonna come looking for me! 
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking. 
With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon. 
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards 
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are. 
The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content. 
There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings. 
In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will. 
I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker. 
People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low. 
I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc. 
It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you. 
I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope. 
It takes nothing to encourage an artist. 
All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there. 
It's a joyful thing, being a Catholic. I can't even think about sex without thinking about bodily waste. 
It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. 
You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon. 
If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995. 
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that. 
Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself. 
Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside? 
And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. 
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due. 
Failure is success training. 
In Hollywood you just fail upwards. 
Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it. 