Directors Insulting Each Other (Part 1)

"Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless."

"Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.”

on Spike Lee: "A guy like him should shut his face."

on James Cameron and Steven Spielberg: "Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an *beep* like Spielberg. He wants to be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a paper bag."

on Paul Thomas Anderson and his film 'Magnolia': "I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work."

on Richard Attenborough: "Sir Richard (‘I’m-going-to-attack-the-Establishment-fifty-years-after-it’s-dead’) Attenborough is guilty of caricature, a sense of righteous self-satisfaction, and repetition which all undermine the impact of the film."

"I'm not a retard like Michael Bay."

"I remember when Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" came out, and I was sitting in a matinee filled with young people. The famous scene of a boy's head being blown off caused a huge commotion in the theater. They thought it was great and they almost died laughing. I was upset because I think it's irresponsible."

on Spike Jonze: "He's the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he's the least interesting person at the party, he's the person who doesn't know anything. He’s the person who doesn't say anything funny, interesting, intelligent… He’s a pig piece of *beep*

"I wouldn’t work for Martin Scorsese for $10 million. He hasn’t made a good film in 25 years. I would never work with an egomaniac has-been."

on Tyler Perry: "We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat?"

on Spike Lee: "Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that… Spike needs to shut the hell up!"

on Steven Spielberg: "I don’t know him personally. I don’t think his films are very good."

on Jean-Luc Godard: "His gifts as a director are enormous. I just can’t take him very seriously as a thinker — and that’s where we seem to differ, because he does. His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin."

on Ted Kotcheff: "Up his with a French Horn."

on Quentin Tarantino: "It’s like watching a schoolboy’s fantasy of violence and sex, which normally Quentin Tarantino would be wanking alone to in his bedroom while this mother is making his baked beans downstairs. Only this time he’s got Harvey Weinstein behind him and it’s on at a million screens."