I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film..

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point..

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips..

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

As the years went on, the audience has become very jaded. They've heard every joke, they've seen every story line, they know where you're going befor….

God has always been the head of my life, even before I knew it..

I would've never done a 1970's road movie. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. So when he started talking about it he brought up all these movies a….

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item….

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

Education liberates a woman..

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all..

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forwar….

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about..

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it..

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis show. The four stage m….

...friendship is something you do..

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

The story is always better than your ability to write it..

I modeled from the time I was 15 until I was 20..

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time..

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it..