Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

Think slowly like a snail, act fast like a cheetah.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories." Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.