Tomorrow is promised to no one.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.

I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.