I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

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.

Our subconscious mind stores all our negative beliefs, complexes and behavioral patterns

A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.

If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough.

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.