"The screen is a magic medium. It has power that can transform a person's life. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can make you think. It can change your mind."

"I have a wife, three children, three dogs, seven cats. I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering."

"I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?"

"I like to think of myself as a storyteller. That's what I am, essentially."

"The idea that social restraints are all bad is based on a utopian and unrealistic vision of man."