When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

Hell is the impossibility of reason.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.