From now on, any flick I'm ever involved with, I conduct critics screenings thusly: 'You wanna see it early to review it? Fine: pay like you would if you saw it next week.'

If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.

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

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

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.

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

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

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

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

BRODIE: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

If there was no Internet, my career would have ended in 1995.

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.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. 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.

There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.

I was actually going out of the hospital with two whores on a fishing boat; I had to keep saying it over and over to myself to believe it.

The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.

They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate...

Does the Spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost over night?