For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

All good work requires self-revelation.

He was prescient. What can I tell you? He was a Jewish soothsayer. One of the things I admire stylistically is how he was able to give you the bitter pill with such good laughs.

There is a kind of crazy bravery about this guy.

We all have a prejudice about action films. It's sort of like, if they're beautiful and blonde, she can't act, and we should know better by now. I've heard it from people, 'What are you doing, doing a picture with Vin Diesel?' They're not giving him the credit he deserves. Sometimes, I just say, 'Wait till you see him in the picture.

I knew I wasn't buying a pig in a poke. I knew how good he was.