I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams

A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I relieve myself from the rigours of directing by casting the movie correctly.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

I've always had a love affair with the ocean. It's my one and only true love.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe)I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations.

And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

Love grows by service.

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

Honor and profit lie not all in one sack.

Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.

I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.