It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

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As long as the egoism is alive, ‘my-ness’ remains within the self.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.

The eternal female draws us onward.

It's such a trip how your body grows and changes, and at the end of the day, you have to wear what you are comfortable in and what you feel good in.

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.