History passes the final judgment

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.