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.

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 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.

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.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

May you find the path of peace.

When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.