"America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."

"See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks."

"N Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck."

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck."

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

"The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention."

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

"I've always found it very sanitary to be broke."

"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."

"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."

"Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited."

"Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant."

"I never said I was a genius."

"Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers."

"I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations."

"The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer."

"My kind of director is an actor-director who writes."

"There were centuries when civilization had no theater."