"The most personal is the most creative."

"I want my films to be like a sudden downpour, unexpected but refreshing."

"I try to express the anxiety and the fears that we all share in modern society."

"Humor and horror are two sides of the same coin."

"The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans."

"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."

"The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'"

"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."