Why should I keep doing things that I've done before?

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I never knew what I wanted, except that it was something I hadn't seen before.

[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.

Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

I love fishing. You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the other end. Your imagination is under there.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

If your strengths don't, then your weakness's will soon define you.

Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

Every expert was once an amateur.

If you want a baby have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body.

I love doing kids' films.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

Don't expect me to cry for the wrong reasons.

We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.