It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.

I think [there's] the opportunity for - I almost said President Clinton, and soon I will - but for Hillary Clinton to address that, and for the public sphere to address that in a way that they haven't. We started a conversation in the last few years on race that we desperately needed to have.

People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.