I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

I cannot live without books.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

I haven’t read Horowitz. I didn’t used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don’t read him today.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

Players who are not from the U.K. have to get used to the winds. I have to adapt my style as a result as well. Often, you are forced to keep things simple.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I didn’t watch ‚The A-Team‘ movie. I’m an artist. You can’t re-paint a Rembrandt. You can’t duplicate that; I don’t care who you get.

I don’t think about who the audience is for my books.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.