But the smoking is very frustrating. Who knows where it will go; where the story will go; where the character will go? There's still lots of options.

I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style.

I love splashing the blood around.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

There is no known device for artistic contraception.

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.