People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.

The struggles, challenges, and obstacles that it takes to succeed in life is what makes success more valuable. Nothing great comes easy, and nothing easy can ever equate to greatness.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

If you think this is weird, just look at yourselves.

What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them