The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

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.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.