Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.

When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

I don't have a death wish. On the contrary, I'm hanging onto my life like never before.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

When Jen Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, I was dying to see something that said they were getting back together.