Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

Change can only work in two ways – for the better, or for the worst. Yet, regardless of whatever manner in which change comes into our lives, what matters is how we view it and how we react to it.

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

I'm still a great movie fan, and I guess that's the answer to your question.

Can the darkness condemn the light?

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Mentally, he's not the same person anymore (Paul Williams).