Football is mesmerizing, because it's a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual….

I've seen my kids' work at school, and I think they're better than when I was young, 'cause I was brainwashed into anti-Communism. This is a much mor….

The only home I had was with Warner Bros. during the '90s. I made four movies with them then. Natural Born Killers, JFK, Heaven and Earth. Any Given ….

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Ame….

I've changed my style constantly, so I'm not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter..

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without ha….

Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more ….

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath..

I may have disparaged the idea that people are looking at films on smaller and smaller screens... it's a shame that people have to watch DVDs with th….

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts..

A lot of the good cameraman who we used are doing television work; they're doing commercials for a lot of money. And the commercials look incredible.….

I'm not an activist. I'm a filmmaker. I'm a dramatist. My strength is to tell a story, to find a way to tell a story that makes it exciting. Our Unto….

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in ….

For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows..

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, t….

I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. ….

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free..

I'd like to be honest to my time, and I lived from 1946, and I want to understand why our country, which I love so much, and was a great country when….

I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different li….

When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding….

I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted….