My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

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.