Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

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 angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Of course, I’ve told Jesus to suck it, too, which earned me a certain measure of notoriety, because you have to make fun of any religion that would let you have sixteen kids and say it’s God’s will.

There lies a faith in the absence of control.

It was the defining event and remains a thousand degrees hot.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours."

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.