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

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.

When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.

To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

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

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

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