In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

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

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

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.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.