I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.