"Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room."

"So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans."

"Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge."

"A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely."

"I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance."

"Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp."