"Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs."

“I like to go to places where you can relax a little after youre done working.”

“I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.”

“I don't direct movies for a living.”

“I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.”

Source : "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

“I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.”

“You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.”

Source : "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

“It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game.”

“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.”