As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Nothing scares me but God.

I never buy a house thinking that I'm going to sell it.

I have been much blessed.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.

One must learn how to be black in America.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies because the good old days werent always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.

As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

You can't make two films at the same time.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

There is no chance no fate no destiny that can circumvent or hinder or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.

I don't want to be a burden on anybody.

No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs.