If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

You taste like heaven, and I’m going to prove it to you.

Did you forget who I am? Finding out the lies of men is my specialty." -Vashti

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

Im massively scared of spiders. Even small ones scare the life out of me.

There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.