Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movies, for an audience to, hopefully, enjoy it.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

My mantra is "Better is better".

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right, ' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

You are quite the surprise, " he whispered softly, clasping her shoulders and eyeing her mouthwatering lips. "You have no idea what you're doing to me.

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

Language is of divine origin.. Some may know this but do not realize its implications in their daily family life. Love at home starts with loving language.

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.