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.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.