America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

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.

Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.

In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Faith is not opposed to reason, but it is sometimes opposed to feelings and appearances.

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.