Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Self-love knows no impediment.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

We see eternity through a microscopic window of time.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

The start is what stops most people.

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

Melania Trump's husband tweeted this: "Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man. He made a good decision."

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree