“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.”

I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

As barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.

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

I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.

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

How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.

The actors that I love to work with, they’re hard on me. They’re pushing me.

I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

I direct, and I make movies I can’t finance. I can’t raise money. I can’t sell anything. I make things.

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

I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.

I don’t have a problem with Werner Herzog.

I’m living in a real postmodern time – every single thing sings to you to tell you it’s started, it’s stopped, you’ve got a message, you didn’t get a message.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

Money has no moral opinions.

Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

No one here gets out alive.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue