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

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 bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

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.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.