Those who are most able to buy what you have to sell are those who most demand that you agree with them.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

You've forgotten those June nights at the Riviera...the night I drank Champagne from your slipper - two quarts. It would have been more but you were wearing inner soles.

The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.