I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?