I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

If you think that because you're Che, when you go into Bolivia, when people find out it's you, that they're going to have the same kind of reaction that the Cubans had to Castro, then you're high.