Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

William Westmoreland

At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago.

Stephen King

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Henry Ward Beecher

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

Tim Burton

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Thom Mayne

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

J. S. Buckminster

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Kahlil Gibran

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Ivan Reitman