People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.