Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

Each of us carries a room within ourselves, waiting to be furnished and peopled, and if you listen closely, you may need to silence everything in your own room, you can hear the sounds of that other room inside your head.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.