The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

First, I blow a hole in your face; then I go back inside, and sleep like a baby... I guarantee you.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.