[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

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

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

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