The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

The VCR is to the American film producer, as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

I have never heard that referred to before, that term: Jewish men from Yale.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.