Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

What reality was ever made by realists?

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.