Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

The western is a universal frame within which it's possible to comment on today.

I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

The end of a picture is always an end of a life.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

Oh, what an unbearable yoke is free will! What a vicious curse of the gods, granting self-determination to creatures incapable of guiding themselves! What good parent would free a child among tigers?

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

I'd always been really intimidated by prose writing.

This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."