The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive aspect of the medium.

Digging up graves is backbreaking work. So I just like that the genre of horror can embrace so many different styles and textures.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

We all seek comfort, and I don't pretend to want to live in squalor.

There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.

The worst thing that could happen to a filmmaker is growing up wanting to be a filmmaker.

I feel very strongly that a film isn't just a story, but the WAY that a story is told. It's why I am such a great fan of Hitchcock because it really is all in the filmmaking.

Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.

There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.

Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy.

In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

Love is a two way dream.

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

It's mean to make fun of anybody for the way they look.

We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.