"It was statutory rape. He had sex with a minor. That's not rape. To me, when you use the word rape, you're talking about violent, throwing them down — it's like one of the most violent crimes in the w…"

"If my movies were any more violent, they’d have to come with a vomit bag and a therapist."

"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…"

"In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective."

"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to movies.'"