I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I got a signed document from Bullock’s saying that they had such-and-such drawings on consignment. Of course, nobody bought any of them, but otherwise, I was a big success: I had my drawings on sale at Bullock’s!

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

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.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Never regret what you don’t write.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

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

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they’re rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.