You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.

What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.

History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted.

With or without money, the work must be done.

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be, do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

Every film that I have done has been woman-centric, because I am in it.

It's not good to argue with your woman about something, because women feel strong about it, they slap you in your face, you still go back to them.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.