I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before.

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they`ll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

You're so stupid, Rose!

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.