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

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

[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.

Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

They'll never give me an Oscar. And I sincerely, honestly don't care. I always turn up when I'm nominated and it would be nice to get one, but to win one would be bad luck. It comes with too much expectation. It would be the end.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.