Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Men who have been in war have a different attitude about being wronged.

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

Who will see you through the darkness? "Me," I key in the answer. "I'll find my own way.

What is the Heart? A flower opening.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.