I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

To do what is right can be a dirty messy business" S. R. Tabone. Made it up for my Godfifa novel.

I work in my pajamas most of the time. No matter what you’re wearing, you can sound businesslike on the phone.

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

Do you even know who I am? Seriously, tell me, because I don't.

You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we’ve failed to make of it a brotherhood.

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie