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

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

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

The best advice is essentially that thing in the back of your mind that you really aren't sure of, and when you start to hear other people bring up the same concerns, you say, "Okay, let's address that."

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

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.

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.