English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

For a moment the feeling crept over me that my work, my vision, is going to destroy me, and for a fleeting moment I let myself take a long, hard look at myself, something I would not otherwise do--out of instinct, on principle, out of self-preservation--look at myself with objective curiosity to see whether my vision has not destroyed me already. I found it comforting to note that I was still breathing.

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.