Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.

If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it.

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.