“The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.”

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”

“The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.”

“I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.”

“The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.”

“I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.”

“I usually do get the tomboy parts in the movies, which is kind of like me, but not totally. I like to shop as much as Ashley, but she is a little more of a girlie-girl than me.”

“I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.”

“In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.”