Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it..

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you..

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted to do..

It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically..

God isn't who we hope He is. God is who His word says He is..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why..

An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it..

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond..

But it was an ending..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

I do understand people when they say that you destroy the magic of childhood if you encourage too much skeptical questioning..

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work..

What is worth having is worth working for..

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!.

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too..

We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with….

When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly ..

What you see you become..

A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do..