I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

When YOU stop believing one person in the world cannot make a difference

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

You can get stuck in one state of mind or a general area of mind for a thousand lifetimes. Some states of mind afford better views than others.

We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.