Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

Money has no moral opinions.

I don't take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?