"I love the smell of film."

"I'm a big fan of kung fu movies. I love them."

"I wish I had sat him down and gone, 'Harvey you can't do this, you're gonna f*** up everything.' I don't think anybody talked to him about it."

"There are two kinds of violence. First, there's cartoon violence like Lethal Weapon. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm not ragging on that. But my kind of violence is tougher, rougher, more disturb…"

"Filmmaking can be a democratic process. In which other people, other than rich white men, can make movies."