I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.

Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

I should have had the pickle.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision.

Pray always for grace and strength.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

One can really love only once.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Fighters have to be optimists.

You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.