These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story.

It wasn't easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn't easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was very young, 27.

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us.

It would have been impossible to get 'The Verdict' off the ground without Paul Newman obviously, but today without any star, kind of a dramatic piece would be very tough.

I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a remake of a successful film. It's less chancy than taking a fresh idea.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

She loved our dad in the inexplicable way that young women sometimes idolize men who greet their affection with casual indifference.

If you don't like someone, don't shake their hand.

I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

Faith is difficult to conquer and requires daily battles if it is to be maintained.

If we believe something does not exist unless we measure it, then we put aside: love, feeling, intuition, art and philosophy.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

The human heart is always drawn by love.