You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

The future is always a dystopia in movies.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.