I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Instead of critics reviewing my movies, now what they're really doing is trying to match wits with me. Every time they review my movies, it's like they want to play chess with the mastermind and show off every reference they can find, even when half of it is all of their own making.

I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

I hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I`m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.