Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

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

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

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

My life is a very simple life thank you

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.