My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

My mantra is "Better is better".

If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?

Personal writing takes up where public education leaves off – with intent to know what is important about life.

Too much rouge is a sign of despair.

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Chicks can make you flip more than any drug would.

People can progress only by working and producing more.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

We only have ten years to save the oceans

I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.