I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

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.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it.

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.