Violence is not funny.

There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.

Violence is not funny.

I've seen my own films close to a thousand times in one form or another. When you edit them. When you shoot them. Then you run them over and over again for sound and music. Then you'd go to premiere screenings, and have to do promotional screenings in other cities. I can't watch any of my old films.