We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

I just love to see people having a good time.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.