I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.