The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

The good ideas will survive.

Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.

But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.