You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

By properly going through hardships you can develop the qualities of the successful man that is in you

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.

It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away.

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.