In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

I have some favorites. I love Chaplin; I mean I really love Chaplin. I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

You rarely get a tentpole that has this much emotional depth, this much character to dive into.

As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule.

Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.