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.

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.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

I do my job in Type O Negative.

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.