Every single frame, every single shot in the movie, has a digital effect.

I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

Producers don't really publicize movies.

One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie.

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

I can't sing anything other than country!

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Losing is like smoking. It's habit forming”; “Fear is the basis of all mankind. In cards, you psyche 'em out, you shark 'em, you put the fear of God in 'em

We're all just walking each other home.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

You hated him in the movies! Now you're ambivalent.