Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

To see talented people in roles that others might not see them in, to see how they might fit in the puzzle of the cast, has always been something that I've been good at. I think that if you look at the successes of my films and start to peel them back, there's usually a really smart casting decision that has gone into that success.