I like anybody who does any kind of construction.

No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

No matter how much a man can do no matter how engaging his personality may be he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.

I like to see you in a sari, with your long hair dressed in a single plait. Don't forget that I married a girl from India because I like my wife to be conservative and feminine.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away... a bigger fool than when he came to it.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.