For some reason, people think of me as someone who can do anything I want. And I'm not. You know, I need someone to put up the money.

I have always loved you.

I've been all over the world, and to be in Milan and see guys dressed as Jake and Elwood is amazing. They really have become a part of the culture.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

But what's interesting is now - and not only in horror, but across the board - the studios basically only make B pictures with A budgets. That's the biggest difference.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

The wonder of imagination is this: It has the power to light its own fire.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

New Jersey gives us glue.

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it.

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.