Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.
Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.
You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.
Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
Casper Wyo. , population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!