Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Oh tell me again how you are saving me.Oh tell me again how you are leaving me.Take care, sweetheart. Play fair, sweetheart.Living different lives in empty beds.

Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences).

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

I'm very lucky, I do have an amazing husband.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

The worst thing a girl could do on a date is fart louder than me.