If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.