Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.
That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.
I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.