I think our life is a series of adventures.

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.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

Have your own convictions. Believe in the laws of your conscience because if you believe in everything, you become nothing.

You have to be mentally prepared to handle any situation.

I am happy to be alive.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.

Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

The spirit of America is all about defiance, and the best music like mine is the freedom soundtrack.