They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Politics has become entertainment.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.

We really believe that whatever we put our minds to, we can achieve.

Isolated and limited vision problem.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

I am absolutely delighted to get back into football with Livingston.

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

Your mind and your luck determine your destiny!

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.