“Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over.”

“We don't even know who's in the Academy.”

“The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.”

“Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.”

“What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it.”

“In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.”

“I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the stage, so I stole that from him.”

“As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.”

“I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.”

“I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.”

“A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.”

“If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.”

“Good wine needs no bush.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“You could be the World's greatest orator and if you don't say anything while orating, they are going to walk out on you after a while.”

“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”

“Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.”

“Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.”

“Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.”

“Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.”