Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

In the global marketplace of the future the price of every product will tell the ecological truth.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.