Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

I think what's cool about about going on a co-headline tour is everyone's bringing a huge show, so it's not like opening band, opening band, then here's the big show. It's like two big shows.

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.