I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

The crime film is the most honest American film.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.

I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.

I think the film gives you a picture of a person. It gives you a complete picture.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

I’m not gone.” He pulled her close and whispered in her ear, “And we’ve got tonight.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.