The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

Everything is defeated before love.

You will NEVER Accomplish until you tried AGAIN.

The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.

I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted)

The strong were always eating the weak.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

Let us think about 'zero-defect and zero effect'. Zero defect in production with no adverse effect on the environment.