Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

Expression is the dress of thought.

Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

Good workemen are seldome rich.

The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.

I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.

I have heard more than once, 'Shut up and sing!' and I get it now.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.