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.

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

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

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.

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.

Life is education, it only end in death.

His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

You need to learn what people have done, but you need to learn where they have failed... Usually when they fail it is in the execution.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?

I'm an interpreter of music.

Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.