I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

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.

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

Music gives infinite strength.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

There is no sense in which Mohammed is viewed as a writer.

May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.