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

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

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

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

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.

Listen, we elected Warren G. Harding. Anybody has a chance.

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

What I experienced with the bears where I discovered my true nature within myself, was not able to be discovered or experienced in this world in society.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.