You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

People go to the movies to see things they haven’t seen before. Call me a radical.

I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

The wise respond. The foolish react. The wise think & then act. The foolish act and then regret.

Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

You need to be focused on what the Lord has entrusted in you

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

Because we're old as sh*t. What do you want?

I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.