"I don't think there's any such thing as a perfect film. It's an impossibility."

"The great problem with people is that they don't know what they want."

"Full Metal Jacket suggests there is more to say about war than it is just bad."

"Perhaps it's a good thing that I'm not very social, because I don't think I could stand the company of most living people."

"There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to things that are vague, mysterious, or even a little opaque."