I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.