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"This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?"
"It takes nothing to encourage an artist."
"I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.'"
"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."
"Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it."
"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."
"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."
"I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest."
"Generally, I wake up, honestly it's creepy, but I wake up around 4:20."
"I liked hockey, and I still like hockey."
"I say what other people won't."
"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 taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie."
"It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not."
"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."
"It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you."
"People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it."
"I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character."
"There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings."
"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."