All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.