Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

There is a fine line between perseverance and madness.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

Self-love knows no impediment.

My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be relaxed while using all your power.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

That's a stupid question, ' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.''No, it's a philosophical question, ' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

Nothing is achieved without solitude.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Being rich is living life on your own terms - according to your possibilities, not your limitations.

My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.