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.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

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

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.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble