I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
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 hope to give you at least 15 more years of movies. I`m not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out. My plan is to have a theater by that time in some small town and I will be the manager this crazy old movie guy.
I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just look at it from their point of view.
If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.
When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
I'm saddest when I sing.