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.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

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

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

I've always had trouble with authority.

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