Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.