"I never went to film school. I went to films."

"Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment."

"I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician. I'm not a preacher. I'm not a teacher. I'm a filmmaker."

"Once the movie gets going, once the lights go down, you become a collective. There's you by yourself, but then there's all of you together. And then you start appreciating the movie in that way."

"Violence was like another character in the room. It hung over the proceedings. You kept waiting for every conversation to break out into it. So even if it was funny, the audience might have laughed, b…"