As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.