What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.

If you go to church and like the singing better than the preaching that's not orthodox.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The ability to make a truly artistic photograph is not acquired off-hand, but is the result of an artistic instinct coupled with years of labor.

You have to do what you believe in.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.