It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

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

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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.

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