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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.