I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Mi….

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms..

It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films l….

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me..

No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done..

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting..

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan..

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line..

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting e….

I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them ….

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call..

If we try to define our own moral universe, there's a price for that..

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceive….

Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of wha….

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if tha….

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't thin….

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take ad….

On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and ….

If you want to be able to use the powers of Flash and Wonder Woman and Cyborg, you have to have bad guys who are up to snuff and give them what they ….

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that ….

I'm human, just like anybody else..