I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could.

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

Happy endings make me puke.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I simply think there's life after movies. I have to adhere to this philosophy, and therefore I like other things, and I have other passions. None are as big as movie-making, but they exist.

Societies that have condoned male cheating and condemned female cheating are simply male-dominated cultures. Cheating is cheating, no matter who is doing it. It’s wrong.

Citizen's arrest, " he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.

Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.

We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

Truth exists only lies are invented.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.