William Burroughs: Dutch Schultz

This is not a film about Dutch Schultz. It is a film about Dutch Schultz and the sets in which he lived and operated. Success in any line is a question of being on set. The director looks around at the set and says "I need you and you and you but you don't belong on this set." Albert Stern, the "teacher", is an example of someone who only got on the set by mistake when he was sought by police as the gun man who shot Dutch Schultz. There is no reason to believe he ever shot anybody but himself. The sets are the medium in which the characters live that inexorably mould their actions. When a character is no longer on the set he is finished.

from The Last Words of Dutch Schultz