"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Gentleman, You Can't Fight In Here. It's The War Room!"

"The very nature of the film medium demands that the director be a kind of dictator. You have to be."

"The criminal and the soldier at least have the virtue of being against something or for something in a world where many people have learned to accept a kind of grey nothingness, to strike an unreal se…"

"The most important thing for any director is to have a good script. If you don't have a good script, you might as well not bother."