Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

I am a dead woman. Dead and insane.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.

Composing is just another exciting thing. It's as exciting as being in a band. It's kind of like joining a new band for three months.

When you chop wood, chips fly.

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

The beauty of service-type businesses is that if they're well run, you have huge excess cash flow.