You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

There shouldn't be any censorship. This is America. There shouldn't be any of this freedom of the press, freedom of expression, but having said that, I think what's important is that people who make movies don't try to falsely lure people in to see the movie that don't want to be there. A kid should not see Evil Dead and we knew that.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.