"Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are."

“I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.”

“Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.”

“The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.”

“Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.”

Source : "Hysteria and the Teenage Girl" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

“This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.”

“We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars Without stars they cannot work.”

“A simple rule applies: if you don't quickly comprehend what a company is doing, then management probably doesn't either.”

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”