If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.

If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical about it. I don't ever deal with the subtext because I just know it's there so I don't have to deal with it. I just keep it about the scenario. I keep it on the surface, on my concerns. And one of the fun things is is when I'm done with everything, like now, for instance.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.