The first casualty of war is innocence.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.

I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.

I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555.

There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.