Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

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.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...