We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

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.

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

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

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.

I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

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