There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

You don't do pictures because the audience is ready for them. You do them because there's something gnawing at you, something inside.

You have to be careful of the advice you take.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame.