In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.