If you come at movies with your own sense of morality and not your own sense of aesthetics, I think you're screwed. I think that's not a way to look at movies.

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?

A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the "perfect dad"? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.