We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

Surviving is the only glory in war.

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them.

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

Film is a battleground.

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

Yeah. I know why she cuts. I just don’t know the seed-reason. It’s deep inside her, and it’ll take time and patience to get it out of her.

My hobbies are run-on sentences.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

I'm a huge fan of process. Even if it's a movie that I don't think is quite as successful, I'm really intrigued by the process of it.