A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.
People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.
Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.
At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep. ' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.
A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.
Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
When I see a kid in a movie theater texting, I think it's a failure of the movie. It's not a triumph of the Apple iPhone. It's a failure of Warner Bros. and Sony, and all that, because they haven't kept their attention and challenged them. They're smart little kids that are bored, and I wanted to challenge them.
One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?