"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

"When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety."

"Men do not desire merely to be rich , but to be richer than other men."

"An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do."

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."