You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.