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

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

Marketing is the devil.

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.