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.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

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

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