Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

Work to fulfill your calling

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

And yet you thought he was the one? Imagine a lifetime without laughter.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. "In this town it wouldn't do any good " he explained. "I happen to be a chain breather."

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.