Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

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.

Knowing others is intelligence

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.