The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

But sometimes the very things you fall in love with people for, become the things you like least about them, in the end.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

I have lived a carnal life.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.