My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

Warum man schreibt, ist eine Frage die sich der Schriftsteller, völlig versunken in seine Arbeit, nicht stellt. Theorien sind das Gebiet derer, die nicht handeln.

The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me?

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.