I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.
I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.
I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.
If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance.
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.
Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.
I would like to live like a poor person with a lot of money.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.