My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

I don't really have a social life.

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.

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.