Don't impose yourself until you really know the work throroughly.

Always look out for the little notes˘like minorities.

Re-creative artists are investigators.

You can't expect the audience to feel anything if you don't.

You just have to believe in a corporate pulse.

You will not pass!” Roman thundered.Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

No shoots, says Friday, no yet, me shoot now, me no kill; me stay, give you one more laugh.

Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.