Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Good is the enemy of great

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman.

Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

I think my ultimate directorial style is 'play.' In reference to theater, it's called a play - I believe in that noun, and the verb that goes with it.

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.