I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

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.

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

I do believe that something akin to a racial caste system is alive and well in America.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

I want to work and be happy.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.