The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

I'm never at a loss for new projects.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.