One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

There is nothing inherently wrong with greed as a human motivator - greed motivating evolution. But there's a huge disconnect between the classes. It is very demoralizing to work for someone who makes a billion dollars a year while you make just barely enough to make it.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008.

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

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.