Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

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.

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

I wondered quickly if I'd give my life so that a dragon could live. If someone offered me that deal, your life for the existence of dragons.I thought maybe yes, maybe no.

Be careful when you set intentions

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me.

With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.'

That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.