Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.

make sure you choose work that makes you happy

Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that.

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.

I was in a very dark place for a long time. It's just so hard to have normalcy.

History is rooted in the future

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.