1. “I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is the dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”
2. “If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.”
3. “I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t.”
4. “Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.”
5. “Novelists have always has complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that’s what I’m trying to do.”
6. “Critics don’t want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That’s good for criticism.”
7. “I wasn’t a predator. I didn’t pick on other people all right, but people didn’t beat me up.”
8. “I steal from every movie ever made.”
9. “You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It’s the little differences.”
10. “I’m a historian in my own mind.”
11. “To me, America is just another market.”
12. “I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.”
13. “There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very , very important part of it.”
14. “I don’t judge my characters, and that’s my job not to judge them.”
15. “I am doing what I’m doing, and if you don’t like it, don’t go see it.”
16. “All the movies are achingly personal.”
17. “I couldn’t spell anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.”
18. “I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.”
19. “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.”
20. “I do like putting scenario and story first and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.”
21. “The good ideas will survive.”
22. “It’s is very important that every movie I do makes money because I want want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.”
23. “I there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it’s because I put the character first.”
24. “Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.”
25. “Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”
26. “I want to write novels, and I want write and direct theater.”
27. “I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.”
28. “I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.”
29. “The easiest way to kill a cult is to make the cult accessible.”
30. “I don’t believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.”
