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

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.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

If the way of the sage is true, that we are all dreaming our world into being, then it has to apply not only to our private, personal universe but to the world at large.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.