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.

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.

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.

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.

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

…each found her greatest safety in silence…

People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Turn on the dream you lived through the unwavering gaze. It is as you thought: the living burn. In the floating days may you discover grace.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.