I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

Men make clothes for the women they'd like to be with or in most cases the women they'd like to be.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

The Oscar for the films, it'd be nice. But I don't make those kind of films, and I don't think that will ever happen.