I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

And since He bids me seek His face Believe His word and trust His grace I'll cast on Him my every care And wait for thee sweet hour of prayer.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.

Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

You find that the things you let go of while following Jesus were the things that were going to destroy you in the end.

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Everything has an end.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.