Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

I dont find myself lobbying for projects. Filmmakers almost always come to me.

A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.