The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Dream big and see further! Sharpen your eyes

....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.

After the verb "to Love " "to Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

I wanted to create something that would live on forever, beyond my time, and out of that came Cashmere Mist.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

The only one you get even with is yourself.

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.