I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done.

When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

[ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.