I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life.

I've always had trouble with authority.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

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 was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

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