Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Rock & roll seemed to just come to us, on the radio and in the record stores. It became our music. . . But then we uncovered another, deeper level, the history behind rock and R&B, the music behind our music. All roads led to the source, which was the blues.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

As you grow older, you change.

You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.