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

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

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.

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.

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

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.