Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy. I like legs' I like booties'. I have a black male sexuality.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives.

And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.