The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it's so simply put and elegant, yet there's so much going on.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

When you love something, it never goes away.

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

My father is so jolly, and I live a really happy life. I think that's why all my interest in the darker things in films comes up: because I'm curious about things I don't live in.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

Make each day count

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.

By observing your judging mind, you can avoid automatically buying into these negative judgments...This transforms your experience of stress by taking the terror and panic out of it.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Never stop forgiving.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.