The crime film is the most honest American film.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

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.

As a filmmaker, it's important to sit there and feel embarrassed. If you feel embarrassed by something, you cut it.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.

Never was strumpet faire.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.