I see my job as trying to entertain you, to be balanced in some way, and morally responsible. I don't want to glorify a killer. I don't want to glorify a rapist. I don't want to do those things, but on the other hand I don't want to lecture to you, either.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.