When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Howdy. I'm gonna separate your head from your shoulders. Hope you don't mind none.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

Better that the whole world should turn against you... than you should consent to turn against what is true within you.

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

Education is not a privilege, it is a right!