[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

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.

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.

You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.

Faith doesn't make sense.It makes Miracles.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.

Overwork tires; underwork wearies.

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.

The best way to understand any system is to understand the problem it was invented to solve.