Doug Cottrell's Copious Projects is a holder for 5 sub-companies. Amiable Products, Heart's Desire Enterprises, Wildfire Productions, Lyon Legal Services.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

We're all idealistic when young.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character is before she becomes a plastic. Very real.

America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

You rest better coming off of a win.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors.

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.