One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

To recover the purest Zero mind, and cosmic consciousness, we first have to attain an earth consciousness.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.