Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

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

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.

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