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

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're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

If there is any larceny in a man golf will bring it out.

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening ones eyes without seeing anything.

Familiarity breeds contempt

Obviously, if people love a movie, and it has the possibility of continuation, then there is going to be a question of whether it's worth doing another one. There's also cynicism and skepticism about sequels.

True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'

I still want to see the Lin-Lee rivalry; those games always bring great fun for the fans.

There's no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

I'm interested in everything.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.

Wisin is my brother. He always will be my brother. We are very happy as solo artists. We had a great musical trajectory together, which will be there forever. And for the future, we won't discard reuniting and making something new.