I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.