I put my head down and charge.

You create opportunities by performing, not complaining

Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.

Do not be afraid to go into uncharted territories. You might find some pretty good things there.

I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.

When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.

Do your homework all of your life.

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I'd take pasta over skinny any day. More importantly, I'd take health over looks.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

Compose first, worry later.