"If you truly love cinema with all your heart and with enough passion, you can't help but make a good movie. You don't have to go to school, you don't have to know a lens... none of that shit's importa…"

"To me they're all living inside of this one universe. And it isn't [pointing out the window] out there. Well, it's a little bit out there, and it's also there, too [points at his TV], in the movies, a…"

"I get a kick out of violence in movies. I don't get a kick out of badly done violence or action scenes in movies. It's like, 'How far is too far?' Well, if they do it well, there shouldn't be, 'How fa…"

"I don't believe in the idea of 'guilty pleasures.' If you f***ing like something, like it!"

"I don't have a problem with violence, I have a problem with reality. My movies are not reality. My movies are movies."