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

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.

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.

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

When bad things happen or you don't get your own way, if you can open your heart to compassion instead of shunting it down in anger, you're going to create more light.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.