The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign of our extinction would be no more than a match flaring for a second in the heavens: and if that match does blaze in the darkness there will be none to mourn a race that used a power that could have lit a beacon in the stars to light its funeral pyre. The choice is ours.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

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