Every man has got to know his limitations.

I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.

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

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.