John Milius

“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.”

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

“I believe in the feudal system. I believe in the samurai. I believe in the shogun. I believe in the Marine Corps.”

“Wolverines!”

“Violence is the ultimate authority. Where you have it, you are the law, and where you do not, you are merely a petitioner.”

“The heart of darkness. He's still only a man.”

“Charlie don't surf!”

“You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to please everybody.”

“My politics are my own. They're not for public consumption.”

“I'm not a liberal. I'm not a conservative. I'm a goddamn American.”

“I'm an artist. I'm not a politician.”

“I'm a Zen anarchist. I'm a Californian.”

“A man's got to know his limitations.”

“I've always been a fascist. I'm a fascist in the original Italian sense of the word.”

“There's a whole generation of people who think that the last war was Vietnam. But it's been going on since the Crusades.”

“In this world, you must be a bit of a bastard.”

“I think that the Western is the purest form of American art.”

“Every great man is a great criminal.”