Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.

I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman.

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.