“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”

“It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.”

“My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.”

“I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.”

“I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.”

“It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.”

“Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.”

“Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.”

“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.”