It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because they're more imaginative, and there's no artifice, and it's far more real.

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

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

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

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

So I know how I watch movies which is on my laptop, man. And that's how I suspect a lot of people do it.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

I feel like if you're in Jersey, you have to be a Jersey Devils fan. Anybody born within the confines of the border of the state of New Jersey, I feel, should be a Jersey Devils fan.

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.

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

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

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.