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.

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

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

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

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.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Instead of thinking outside the box, Get rid of the box.

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Making an album is a long process, but it's a fun process.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

[Hillary Clinton] was going to have a very difficult pathway going forward anyway.

If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you.