I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can.