"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 wish I had sat him down and gone, 'Harvey you can't do this, you're gonna f*** up everything.' I don't think anybody talked to him about it."

"I'm a big fan of movies that are controversial."

"I don't make political films. I make films that have politics in them."

"I'm not interested in making movies for children."