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

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

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.

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's music.

Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

You're not broken. You're perfect. And when you get to get away from these kids, you might finally have a good man.

Meditation is like a bath for the mind; it clears and refreshes our windows of perception, allowing more light, love, and happiness to flow into lives.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

Confine yourself to the present.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.