"I didn't start a family until late in life. I've been -- I've always kind of equated -- if you're doing movies on, you know, on the level that I've been doing, actually at the level I've been allowed …"

"I don't want to make movies that are safe. I want to make movies that are dangerous."

"I don't care about being cool. I care about being good."

"It's not that I'm on this big crusade against linear storytelling, but the thing is it's not the only game in town. A novel can do that no problem. Novelist have always had complete freedom to pretty …"

"When I start writing I write these crazy novels. And I don't know what to do about it. Well, write a novel. That's what you can do, write a novel. And don't make a movie out of it."