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.

We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill 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.

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

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.

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