Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

Out here, the open night is my church, the trees are my congregation, the stars are my angels and the moon is the only god that I know.

The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

When you give death, you give of your own life - every time.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.

He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.

Friend - a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection and loyalty.