If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they're going to watch it.

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.

The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.