I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.

My films do very well on home video.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

You really have no idea what other people are going through in their personal life so just be kind, it's that simple.

There’s no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it’d be rather boring.

Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

The great Way is all-pervading. It reaches to the left and to the right. All things depend on it with their existence. Still it demands no obedience.

It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.