Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.

There's some [films] where I do a lot of homework and then there's some, where it's supposed to take you by surprise. So you kind of just want to get in there and have everything take you by surprise rather than just have him tell you how everything went down.

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.