...if [the 9/11/01 attacks] had happened to the Russians, about three major cities in the Middle East would have been parking lots in twenty minute and they wouldn't have worried about the consequences because there would not have been any because the remaining terrorist states would have said 'we get the message.'

It is okay to fall, but not okay to stay on the ground.

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

Aficionado my ass...I just love to smoke cigars

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.