There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.

I started crying 20 seconds into the movie and didn't stop till it was over.

I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator.

Follow your passion.

The studio should not have released this film.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

I liked television, and television liked me.

They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays he wouldnt want me here either.

If you want to stand out dont be different be outstanding.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

It's well-known that people don't respond to scarce resources necessarily in what we might consider a positive light.

What I learned at that moment on the subway 30 years ago, staring at my blank passport, was this: If you have an impulse to do something, and it's not totally irresponsible, why not do it? It might just be the journey you've always needed.

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

I love college life.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

The Colombians are good tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.