I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

I have personal beliefs and they are sometimes reflected in the movies I make, but I also reflect other points of view.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.