I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera..

I'm about my characters..

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting..

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings..

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves..

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there..

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want..

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models..

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is ….

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me..

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it..

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you..

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films..

It's always a problem when you're working with people you don't really know. Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting. You know, thes….

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death..

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film..

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody..

The last day of your life is still going to be a day..

I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time….

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to de….