When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go….

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion an….

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention..

The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to b….

What am I hanging around for? But I'm hanging around because it's still fun..

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we.".

Death is a part of life, and eventually I assimilated that completely..

You will never convince anyone to do anything unless you believe it should be done..

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between..

The past is history, the future's a mystery..

I feel like Alain Delon, who once said, "It doesn't matter that I'm not a star in America because I'm a huge star in France, I'm a legend in Spain, a….

[Robert Downey was being singled out for] selective prosecution. He's a sweet guy who never did harm to anyone except himself. He's been doing drugs ….

I think there's a general sense that the belief structures that existed and carried civilization forward have weakened to the point where they can no….

I work seriously with complete integrity. I never, never, never have offered a part to anyone who didn't deserve it, and I've never not delivered whe….

I'd been basically anchored in New York for three years, but I fled to L.A. after the funeral and decided that I had to start a movie immediately. It….

In a way, I think that the movie Fight Club [1999] did a weird, negative thing to boxing, culturally. I mean, it is sort of similar to what has happe….

I've struggled seriously to make movies with very little money, that I write, that I direct, that mean my life to me. The idea that I would offer a p….

Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much avail….

I think that one of the things that is happening in the so-called "clash of civilizations" is that the confidence that was once obvious in the Wester….

Much as I like getting awards in Oldenburg, Germany and Torino, it's nice to get one in America..

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register..