If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity--no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.