"I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene."

"I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff."

"When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story."

"Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture."

"Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards."

"It is a radiant truth that to lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one."

"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."

"Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown."