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

"I'd kill a million rats, but I don't necessarily want to kill one in a movie or see one killed in a movie, because I'm not paying to see real death."

"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."

"I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough titty, said the kitty."

"You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down."