I'm a passionate trade unionist.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

Money takes our minds off God.

Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the proud badge of excellence. By working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its golden title.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

In every given circumstance, only your repeated interpretations of it will determine whether it breaks you or makes you.

Rather than critique people, try admiring God’s creative handiwork.

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

I just need to come to the park every day thinking something good is going to happen to me and hoping today is going to be the day.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough.

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.