To me movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

I was striving to be the most muscular man and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do how to do it when to do it how to feel about it and how to look how you feel about it.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

If my films don't show a profit I know I'm doing something right.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something but to be something.

I learned that we can do anything but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds.

Crave for a thing you will get it. Renounce the craving the object will follow you by itself.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

When I was twelve I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Early One Morning takes time and I mean all things like that I felt were very important.

I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests private interests.

I work out twice a day once in the morning and once before bed. I'll start with half an hour of running and then some yoga to stretch everything out so everything is warm.

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments breathing in the soft warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

So far as I know anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning and if it is it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy though we were still lying to.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right you can fix it.