I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

Don’t worry. Cast your anxieties upon the Lord!

She hated anyone who clung to the supernatural when the natural was perfectly serviceable.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

She's my Tallahassee lassie down in FLA.

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.

Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!!

The world's holy texts are built on ancient oral traditions.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.