"I do like directing other people's material." — Brian De Palma

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.