You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Producing is great because you learn.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.

The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7.

For any actor to have Oliver Stone call him or her up… It’s a compliment. He expects you to be on your toes. If you’re not, he pokes at you until you react. He’s very provocative, creatively. It started like a lot of hard work, but it ended up a lot of fun.