In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.

I don't want to deal with the underneath while I'm, you know, while I'm making it or while I'm writing it or when I'm making it. Because again, I don't want to hit these nails on the head too strongly.