The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.

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.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

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.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.

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Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.

It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.