"Heroic violence in the Hollywood sense is a great deal like the motivational researchers' problem in selling candy. The problem with candy is not to convince people that it's good…but to free them fro…"

"Violence is one of the most dramatic forms of human interaction."

"I think that the human mind is a very fragile thing, and that it can be easily corrupted."

"There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to things that are vague, mysterious, or even a little opaque."

"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."