Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

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.

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

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.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

He's my neophyte Downworlder to mock and boss around, not yours.

Anybody who says that money don't change you - they only say that because they don't make enough.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.