We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.