To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.