The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

How are we going to get out of here?""Oh, escape is easy once you have the right

[To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.