It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously