Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

There's the generation that made the rules, the generation that codified them. The generation that broke them - that's mine. The generation that laughed at them - that's Tarantino's. And now there's a generation that doesn't know that there were any.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman, What he has left is a legacy greater than any other director.... I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.