My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

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

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

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

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

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.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

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

I want to be an executive producer.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.