Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

Once scouting fully opens its doors to all who desire the same experience that so fully enriched me as a young person, I will be happy to reconsider a role on the advisory board.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.