Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.