I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

[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.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

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