Quotes

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

Clinton's a schmuck.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.