“But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.”

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.

It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.

Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.

Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.

Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?

I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.

I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

Money has no moral opinions.

I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.

Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.