Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

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 used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

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.

One of my movies was called ‚True Lies.‘ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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

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.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

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

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn’t what I had imagined at all.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

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.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.