It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

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.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.