They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

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.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

I won't ever do e-mail.

Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.