Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. No one believes this, but it's the same. I'm the same person, trying to make it work. I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

The truth will only be told over a career.

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.