I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

We get up in the morning and do what we must to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters.

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.

No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

Self-honesty is absolutely necessary in the practice of Buddhism.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.