To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

What will be the crown of those who, humble within and humiliated without, have imitated the humility of our Savior in all its fullness!

I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

The nation needs men who think in terms of service to their country and not in terms of their country's debt to them.

They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don’t teach you a thing about death. There’s no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.