To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.