It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

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.

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

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

The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.