I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.

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.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

We live in a competitive society. To pretend that it is not there is ridiculous. That is how the whole planet is set up. If you are not competitive, you do not succeed, you do not survive.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.