I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

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.

I'm a cactus but I will only offer you flowers.

They are not working in sync. Working on the same thing at the same time is not as effective as working on the same thing a the same time with the same strategy.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

Dating is about finding out who you are and who others are. If you show up in a masquerade outfit, neither is going to happen.

We've got to create more good jobs with rising incomes.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.