A lot of people say that comedy doesnt travel well. I found it very accessible.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

Anyone look back at their high school career and just shudder at what you got away with and didn't die?

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

Every movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.