I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.