You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil

Living the life you want is your ultimate responsibility

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent...and have a grateful heart!

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.

We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul.