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

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

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

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.