Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

Negativity is positively bad for your health.

My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.