The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

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

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

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

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie