People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.

Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.

The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.

A German shepherd dog could walk in the office with a script in his mouth, and if that script was really good, they'd buy the script.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.