"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. I'll be the crazy old movie guy.""I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."
"I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't."
"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."
"I'm not James Cameron and I could never think like that. I don't think he could think like me either...but if I could go into a time machine and think like that and be able to do what he could do, that would be great."
"If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it."
"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had faith in me to get their money back."
"There's only one list that's more illustrious than the list of directors who won the Palme d'Or. It's the list of directors who didn't."
"L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet."
"If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do."
"I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify it's existence, without apologies."
"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
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