We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.