There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.
Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.
I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
I've just never cared what people think. It's more if I'm happy and I'm confident and feeling good, that's always been my thing.