I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

Commitment it's not for those who are fragile one have to be persistent

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

I know what I need to do every fight to get ready. It's always a question of how you "look", how you "feel" after a fight.

Im not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world.

And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.