The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.

I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.