Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

It's very gratifying that someone likes what you're selling.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

The words are the words. Seriously. Meaning you don't have boo-boo words. You can do boo-boo things. You can have sex, carnage, mayhem, whatever you're looking for. "The Evil Dead" movies, in my opinion, function better in an unrestricted world.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.