I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

Thank God for your mother.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

I cannot permit you to disrupt the Paramount schedule.

It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.

Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy.

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

At this rate, I'll live forever.

I dont think Im going to do any good work this morning.

The man of dependability is never a drug on the market.

I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.

Knowledge is just a strong belief shared internationally that can be changed at any moment.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and... I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make your days, get it done, keep everyone happy, which is a huge thing in a movie, and to steer the ship.

Tobacco surely was designed to poison, and destroy mankind.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Being handsome wasnt much of a burden. It worked for me.

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

I love the instant gratification of theatre - it reminds me of why I enjoy filming in the first place.

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

If Obama raises my company's taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I've got 30 employees, that means I'm going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.