There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

All good work requires self-revelation.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

I only said 'Titanic' is unwatchable because one can not watch it.

Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

Fearing our confrontations is one thing... facing them unarmed is a completely different matter.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

I am so thankful and appreciative of being a part of this franchise and playing in front of the best fans in the NFL. I will be back.

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

To win, you have to lose, and then get pissed off.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.