You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

I think one day youll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

Writing is like giving yourself homework, really hard homework, every day, for the rest of your life. You want glamorous? Throw glitter at the computer screen.

Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them.

...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.

To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.

It's not the matter you cover so much as it is the manner in which you cover it.

I love talking about myself.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.