For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch.

We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.

Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.

And I love shooting football.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies.

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

I was a disinterested student.

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

Its a bad day when you dont get the work done that you need to get done or you dont get it done to the satisfaction.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.