You're an actor, you want to do a scene in class. But one of the things I've always had is I've always had a really good memory. So I would go and watch a movie and then I would see a scene in the movie and I go, hey I'd like to do that in class this Wednesday.

I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.