'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
I think girls who insult people are very attractive.
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.
John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.
When you've got some talent, your job is to use it.
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.
If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
If we are addressing the issue of weapons of mass destruction, we need to send a uniform, consistent message that there is zero tolerance to any country who is developing weapons of mass destruction, North Korea included.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.