"I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor."

"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head."

"I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand."

"People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is."

"Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera."

"I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film."

"What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better."

"And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way."

"I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny."

"I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices."

"Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked."

"Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry."

"I'm as conservative as they come."

"You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to."

"I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is."

"Music is half the film."

"So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing."

"I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on."

"It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies."

"I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books."

"Cliches are what make you understand something."

"I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in."

"So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time."