To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer..

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life..

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films..

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the histor….

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up d….

You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exa….

Of course, I'm no dummy..

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically..

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast..

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let th….

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from b….

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor..

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out..

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it..

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed t….

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak..

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood..

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficul….

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there..

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film..