On the other hand, I would've been exceedingly rich, which would've been wonderful!

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

TV, in particular cable channels, has assumed the role of independent film.

If Plato is a fine red wine, then Aristotle is a dry martini.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I'm not sure who's right, who's wrong, but it doesn't matter. Sometimes you just have to do what you're told. That's who we are!

I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

A picture is worth a thousand words.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

When all other hope is gone, our Father in Heaven provides the Lamb of God, and we are saved by his sacrifice.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.