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

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.

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.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.