When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

[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".

A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues.

I drive a V10 Ford Excursion and I have to tell folks all the time: look I've got five kids and a dog and birds. I would have to have two Lincolns with two V8s, you see, so it would be 16 cylinders.

The only problem with getting married is that we can't fornicate anymore.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.