All men are equal before fish.
As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm. . . it's hard for the audience to relate to them.
It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one, I think to myself: 'why in the world do I think I know how to do this?'
I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.
Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.
I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness. . . It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.
Every woman is the gift of a world to me.