Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

Impossible to see, the future is.

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.