'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

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

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

Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

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.

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