"It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies."

"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."

"I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good."

"Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different."

"If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation."

"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."