When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.

If your first scene doesn’t give you a hard on, throw it out!

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

We’ll build a democracy here, even if it’s with Nazi bricks.

Heroes? Don’t believe in them.

There’s a difference between a Nazi and a German.

If a story doesn’t give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

When you’re in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.

Mark Twain didn’t psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn’t put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.