If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.