I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me.

I don't have a saviour or a royal family.

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.