The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when ideology connects with faith, the ideology becomes an item of faith, not a point of discussion.

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again.

When I learned to switch jealousy for admiration, it unblocked a lot of things.

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

I find it very stupid that teenagers could only see caricatures of teenagers but they couldn't see films that you try to be a truthful context, a truthful portrayal of teenagers.