Aficionado my ass...I just love to smoke cigars

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

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

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

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it.

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

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.