In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

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

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.