Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.
A man’s just gotta know his limits.
I’m a firm believer in research, but I’m also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside.
Things always look different from higher up.
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.
When I look back on my life, I don’t have regrets about what I didn’t do. If I’d become a musician, it could have ruined my life.
There’s a lot of young guys coming along, but I’d like to say to the various financiers, don’t forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you.
I’m suffering from oxygen deprivation. It’s overwhelming watching your career go by.
Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.
I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.
When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one.
Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
I’m past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.
In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.
I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn’t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was.
To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there’s a lot of things to choose from.
Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you. I mean it.
There’s really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That’s kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.
I’ve done a few special effects movies in my life, so I’ve gotten that out of my system.
My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.