I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.