my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.

Resolve to be merry though the ship were sinking.

A Man that wants Money thinks none can be unhappy that has it.

All policies allowed in war and love.

Want is the mistress of invention

Lying is a thriving vocation.

And lash the vice and follies of the age.

Nobody can boast of Honesty till they are try'd.

Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

I always want to be prepared, 'cause you never know who's going to come to your studio.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

You have to keep plugging away. We are all growing. There is no shortcut. You have to put time into it to build an audience.

I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.