If you’re in a hole, stop digging.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity. . . and, most of all, intellectualism.
I am. . . a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.
Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.
You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad--if you're indifferent, Endsville.
The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.