I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Mindset will change your reality and destination. Are you ready? If yes, start THINKING victory. Trust me - you will win.

And I know, when things look the worst is when something new and wonderful is about to happen, if we can just hold on.

I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

Somebody call Janet Reno - I think I just saw Donato dragging Doug Flutie into a locker room closet!

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Half of tradition is a lie.