"I think your questions are reductive and I'm not answering them."

"If you have the passion to do it, and you do it and it doesn't work out—I worked for 3 years on a 16mm movie that became nothing but guitar picks. And I was very disappointed when I realized it wasn't…"

"I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages."

"I don't care about being popular. I care about making movies that I'm proud of."

"I'm a cheerleader towards violence in cinema. you know I have no problem is saying that I like violent movies. and I respond to violent movies. and I actually think violence is one of the things. that…"