I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

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.

Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.

Thank God I'm at that point in my career where I don't have to take stuff that I don't really want to do.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

You basically only discover a new thing once.