I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Take the wheel and create spectacular moments for yourself. Rev up the extraordinary in your life!

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

I've ridden a bike since I was 18. It was the first transportation when I came to Hollywood because it was inexpensive and easy for me.

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Searching for new ideas is an endless process.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.