Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.