A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

I am a complicated person with a simple life.

Man is slow because he hesitates

I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie

There are no inherent limitations to the medium. There are just differences.

[On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.