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

"What I'm trying to do is make films that are a little bit ahead of their time, that will still be relevant in twenty or thirty years."

"The purpose of art is to make us feel. Not necessarily to make us happy."

"The great problem with people is that they believe they have to be in love to be happy. They don’t. They have to be in love to reproduce."

"Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is a war against himself."