There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

He suffered, " added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you.

Hisotry has shown again and again that a small group of highly determined people can achieve impossible things

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.