It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

It is in our idleness in our dreams that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.

My family life mirrors why I am the person I am.