"I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones."

"What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry."

"The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff."

"I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in."

"We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets."

"I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality."

"I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it."

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."