I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

You can't write something to please someone.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

The fat man looked amused. "What on earth for?" he said. "I never have any contact with writers. If I do, they just keep pestering me about getting paid.

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...

I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.

No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.