The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

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.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

None of the pictures I take a risk in cost a lot, so it doesn't take much for them to turn a profit. We don't deal in big budgets. We know what we want and we shoot it and we don't waste anything. I never understand these films that cost twenty, thirty million dollars when they could be made for half that. Maybe it's because no one cares. We care.