In Chicago, we love our crooks!

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Let the cut tell the story. Otherwise you have not got dramatic action, you've got narration.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

People only speak to get something.