I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

A thinking mind returns to its subject.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

Hope is an adventure a going forward a confident search for a rewarding life.

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.