A life like Nixon's is filled with shame and filled with glory. He loved to quote Teddy Roosevelt: "He was a man; sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man." I love that line.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

When Christian leaders dare to invade with authority the devil’s domain with kingdom attitude, people listen

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.

A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

It is an admirable skill to able to sweeten a refusal with civil words which atone for the favor which we are not able to grant.

Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.