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.

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

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.