Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

Unconsciously, I had prepared the perfect trap in which to catch and hold my soul.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that’s another discussion entirely.

You can’t leave civilization behind entirely.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child’s life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

Anybody can write a film script ’cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

I write from my imagination, not from what I’ve read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Men hand out cigars. Women ‘hand out’ babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It’s called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. Art is confidence. Technique makes it possible to achieve artistic greatness, but doesn’t guarantee it. The great piano artists are not the ones who are best playing Clementi exercises.