You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.

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

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

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

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

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