People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.