The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

The unfinished is nothing.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.