Use your eyes–strong eye contact gives the impression of respect and affection. It also gives the impression of being an abstract thinker.

Smile big at the right time. Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible.

The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine

The sticky eyes technique: hold your gaze as much as possible. When talking about personal matters with another men, hold your gaze a little less.

The epoxy see eyes technique: hold gaze on the subject even when another party is speaking. Conveys intense confidence and interest in the subject. Use with caution.

Watch your posture whenever you walk through a doorway. Hold your head high, your shoulders back, and your torso out. This will convey confidence and command respect.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

Remember who you are. Dont compromise for anyone for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy for it turns earth and even manure into gold conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.

I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it.

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and I think that actors really respond positively to the fact that I like to talk about that stuff, because I'm not sure that all directors do.

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

Three of the top six documentaries of all time, grossing, are made by me.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

When you're playing the good guy, you want to find the dirty parts - and when you're playing the bad guy, you want to find the vulnerability.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design its decoration.

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.