We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last.

Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

It was nice to be reminded of how much hard work goes into movies, and how as a director, it's your job to acknowledge and channel that hard work. She's amazing at that.

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world.

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.