What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.

I still love her. But she's retarded, too.

As I get more and more involved in the child's world with Rocco his son I'm getting interested in making a film for children.

It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them.

I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.

Its about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The films about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.