I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

If you try to do a look-alike and an impersonation, then that's just not conducive to good drama.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again.

Half of what's wrong with people today is that they ain't got no place to go that makes them peaceful.

Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.