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

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.

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

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.

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE, LIES WILL PUT YOU INTO PRISON

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

Whatever you advise, be as brief as possible.

When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.