I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.