The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.
I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.
I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.
No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong. ' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
Defeat is always momentary.
He who must search a haystack for a needle is likely to end up with the attitude that the needle is not worth the search.
How did the land of Jefferson, how did the land of King, become the land of hamburgers and raisins that can sing? Roosevelt was cripple, Lincoln was a geek, they'd never get elected, their clothes were never chic.
I am not ruled by sex. I never have been.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.