The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.