'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
I would make a film with a political point of view if I agreed with it, and even, perhaps, if I didn't.
The truth is, I mostly thought about 'Accidental Racist' in terms of my fans. This song was meant to generate discussion among the people who listen to my albums. What I was most worried about is that my fan base would think that I was preaching to them.
I'm surprised by how many people have not seen 'Footloose.'
I wrote an article for Revolver and it was very offensive.
I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.
I am loath to suggest 'Visitor Q' to anyone, because you've got to have a warped brain to even understand or appreciate it a little bit. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I have been blessed with a warped brain, and I really dug it.
To be honest, I make very controversial films. The films that I've made have been very, very bold choices.
The first rap that I wrote was about my Maths teacher, and as expected, he didn't like it, but the students loved it!
Some of my films are known for the depiction of violence. I don't have anything to prove with that any more.
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
'The Scarlet Gospels' does, by general consensus, seem to mark a new high - or low, depending on your point of view - in its excessiveness, in its extremities.
'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.
Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
Dan Brown and the 'Da Vinci Code' have been around well over a decade now, and to be perfectly honest, both he and it have become a joke.
In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'
I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.
I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
The studio was very nervous about 'Raging Bull.'
I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
