If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.

I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm only comfortable working on low-budget, small films. That's not the case at all.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.