What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

You would not experiencing great change unless you were ready for the transformation. Embrace the new you that's emerging.

What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's like m mom has been walking right beside me. Which, you have to admit, a pretty freaky feeling.

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

'No one sits Baby in a corner, ' one of the best lines in movie history.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Can somebody explain to me why Pepsi and Coke advertise? Are we missing something? Seriously, everyone in this room has drank enough Pepsi and Coke in their lifetime they could piss it for a week.

Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.