"I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person."

"I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances."

"When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left."

"I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with."

"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."

"It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

"If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it."