You're good, you're real good.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

The way you dress is extremely important. It demonstrates your spirit. It's the guise through which the world evaluates and views you.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

I don't think I'm more politically-based as much as socially-based.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.