When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

I'm not in business to make money.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario, ' and 'Mario Who?'

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character. Grenville Kleiser Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

I always try to take projects I'm genuinely interested and passionate about versus just trying to take projects for the money.

If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.

I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.