My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Self-love knows no impediment.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

NOTHING IS GREATER THAN ITS SOURCE

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one, ' said Aunt Hilda

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

Many things are linked to being able to live with uncertainty, ...with paradoxes. But this can be a strength of an organisation and a situation.

And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.