“Too much TV hurts movies.”

“Audiences want to see intelligent movies.”

“I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.”

“Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.”

“People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.”

“I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.”

“I think I made good movies.”

“Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.”

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”