I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

A real litmus test for me is how people treat someone who is waiting on them. That's a dealbreaker for me.If I were on the verge of getting into a serious relationship and I saw that person be mean to a waiter... I'm out.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

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.