Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

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

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

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.