My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

Well, nobody's perfect.