In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.

You definitely want to do the little films. They're always going to be harder, but you don't do them to make money. You do them so you can see what you can make with the research that you have.

I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.

Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.

The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.

We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

High school you dont want to go back and do it over again.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

The art of being bored is lost.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.

When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

We don't separate out men and women working together in corporations.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I don't mind knife fights. I just want the knives to come to the front.

People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

There is a certain security in having a great supporting cast.

Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.