The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

Do according to your capability.

Everything within reality has some price to be paid at some point.

Smile, laugh, spread a little joy in someone's life, it surely come back on you in a good way.

Would anyone notice if I just... left

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.