Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time."

Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

As much as the destination ends the journey, so it is of the dream coming true.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time.

I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.

[9/11] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

The commercial paper market, when that dries up, you know, that's just like sucking the blood out of the economic body of the United States.

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.