It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the Forum. But it's changing. It truly is. I'm optimistic but skeptical.

And then the industry itself was so cocky about what they were doing that they weren't seeing what was coming on the horizon with Japan and Germany and other places that were building smaller cars.

Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

Originals cost more than imitations.

Be gentle with all people. We all have different struggles.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

I would like to do a big movie that many, many people see but I just know I would be miserable if it didn't have something to it.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

Feeling free inside oneself is being free.

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.