I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible evil of all is hypocrisy. It's this idea that there are those who do bad and there are those who do good, when, in fact, even the people who supposedly do good are saying they do good to mask the fact that they do evil.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.

I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.