I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

The song of the brush.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Millions of Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages. They have a right to know whether members of Congress receive sweetheart deals in order to pay for theirs.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.