You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.

Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Real talent is a mystery, and people who've got it, know it.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct

Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

Everyone smiles, when they are with you. Please... from now on, go and help people in my place. Share your happiness with them.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Good conversation turns me on. A connection between two people, a mental one first.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

I'm glad you're here. We've had some...interesting developments." Leif groaned. "That's Yelena-speak for life-threatening danger.

When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."