Dalton Trumbo

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.