When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my fingers upon thee!

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

The Creator is Sovereign Lord.We are Sovereign being.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

No one is going to feel sorry for you, so you have to go out there and be fierce.

I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell

With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly what will happen. With the squeegee you lose control.

I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.