I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the earth because I figure, a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody; so I would say, 'Just come on up.'

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

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

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.