You either care or you don’t.
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem.
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn’t first degree murder; in fact, it isn’t even murder; in fact, I don’t know what it is.
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent.
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that’s going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
The screen is a magic medium...
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?