The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.
With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun. "
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
If you want to be the best, baby, you've got to work harder than anybody else.
My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.