If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.
There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
Any good movie is filled with secrets.
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce. . . some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed the failure of big government to provide for the collective good, you spoke of self-reliance, of personal responsibility, of individual pride and integrity. When others preached compromise - when others demanded compromise, you, Ronald Reagan, preached conviction.
You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.