My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.

You've no doubt heard the saying 'knowledge is power.' I disagree. Knowledge is only powerful if you use it, if you act on it.

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.

I was born and raised in Denver, CO.

One has not understood until one has forgotten it.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

I still love her. But she's retarded, too.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy

I think anyone smiling and happy is beautiful.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars