A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting….

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo….

I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing..

I have this strength that comes from knowledge..

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels..

Are you making life or is life making you?.

As you are, you see everything else..

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things..

Power is intoxicating..

You can't be what you can't see..

Politics is who gets what, when, how..

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

Confidence and hope do more good than physic..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

Life is about coming back and mastering how to come back..

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion..

At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are more resistant to road….

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every st….

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulo….

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side..