When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.

Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that's a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It's how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting.

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

Movies are a whole different ball-game, now. It's much more of a business - very scientific.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.