You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.