I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

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.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.