Criticism is the essence of creation.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.