David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend..

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about..

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before..

It's very rare to get a film script that has good dialogue. A lot of the time, you spend on film sets really fighting to find out how to say the word….

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge..

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on..

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid..

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'.

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy..

In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view..

I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people..

I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it's better to ….

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head..

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste..

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines..

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films..

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary..

There's a lot of films I've done I don't ever wanna see again..

I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional..

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film..