"I do not make films for children. I make films for adults who are children."

"If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great!"

"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to movies.'"

"If a guy is shot in the stomach and he's bleeding like a stuck pig, I want to see him bleeding like a stuck pig that is the That is now the situation you're dealing with all right it's not he's ow he'…"

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