"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 don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me i am the audience."

"I make violent movies. I like violent movies. I'm on record about how I feel there is no correlation between art and life in that way."

"I've never been interested in making a movie that everybody likes. I'm interested in making movies that I like."

"Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character."