"I'm never bothered that people say I don't make films 'from life' and that I have 'nothing to say.' I don't try to say anything but to create characters and to tell stories out of which meaning can ap…"

"I don't make movies for critics. I make movies for audiences."

"I don't think about the legacy of my films. I just think about making the next one."

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

"When a man of principle battles a scoundrel, the scoundrel always at first has the upper hand. Because there are some things the man of principle won't do."