I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.
You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
Just stay real and stay a real person.
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
If you don't know something, admit it. But, try to impress them with what you do know.
I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.
I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
Once I make a picture, I never look at it again.
I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
