‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The worst crime is faking it.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

I can’t act!

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I want to show audiences I can act.

On ‚Think Like a Man,‘ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

If you go to a bad movie, it’s two hours. If you’re in a bad movie, it’s two years.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I like a drama.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

The original ‚About Last Night‘ was phenomenal.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Poverty is the mother of crime.