“For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.”

“Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.”

“I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.”

“The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.”

“Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.”

“And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.”

“I don't want to imitate life in movies I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.”

“We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.”

“You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.”