When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.

Oscar Wilde

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

Richard D. Zanuck

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

W. Edwards Deming

I like when guests come over early and we chop veggies and talk and play music.

John Stamos

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Doris Lessing

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Paul Tsongas

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Jean de la Bruyere

No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

Steve Maraboli

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

Annie Leibovitz