But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.