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

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

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.

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

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

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.