America is the most inventive country in the world. Why? Because everybody has access to information. In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.