I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.