I study history in order to give an interpretation.

You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.