When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

Heroes? Don't believe in them.

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.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

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

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.