Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

in a woman's womb.another chance.to make the world better.

Heart - FamilyBody - LazyMind - WorkSoul - Happy

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Freedom will remain elusive as long as there remains a 'self' to be freed.

I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.