I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

Every year I volunteer at a hospital on Thanksgiving, deep-frying turkeys in the children's burn unit. I do it just to see the looks on their little "faces."

I've always been my own hitting coach.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives.

You see the world much better through a camera.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.