Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

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

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.