I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid sick days, as many as you need, personal days.

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

We as Americans believe it’s OK to kill people. We believe it’s OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it’s OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he’s in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty, we sanction it.

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

All art is about appealing to emotion.