All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.