Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

I think the great power of Bette Davis was she always knew who she was. She had an obligation to herself and her audience. When you think of what she was compelled to do, the power she put on the screen, the fact that she took upon herself a much greater task.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.