It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Yes, the life of an adult entails accepting and in some way being responsible for pain.

God seldom gives us all we need in order to understand, but He always gives us all we need to obey.

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

if you have to say “no offense” to someone, you have already offended them.

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

I want to let my fans know I love them and I'm coming your way and I'm bringing truckloads of funny.