I don't see people as groups, I see them as individuals.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Age will flatten a man.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

The devil is more interesting than God.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

We all live with more mortality because we're all on drugs.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.