"Violence was like another character in the room. It hung over the proceedings. You kept waiting for every conversation to break out into it. So even if it was funny, the audience might have laughed, b…"

"I'm a big fan of movies that are morally ambiguous."

"I'd kill a million rats, but I don't necessarily want to kill one in a movie or see one killed in a movie, because I'm not paying to see real death."

"I don't like to compromise. I like to do it my way."

"If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie. You don't have to go to school, you don't have to know a lens... none of that shit's importa…"