"It's not that I'm on this big crusade against linear storytelling, but the thing is it's not the only game in town. A novel can do that no problem. Novelist have always had complete freedom to pretty …"

"Social critics don't mean a thing to me. It's really easy to ignore them, because I believe in what I'm doing 100%. So any naysayers for the public good can just fuck off."

"I don't care about what people say about my movies. I make them for myself."

"My philosophy forever has been it doesn't matter what you're like as long as you're interesting. Interest is everything."

"I'm not interested in making movies for children."