For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.