I've always believed in going after writers. I've been criticized for it to. I've turned down big stars for things and I've lost friends over it.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

I learned at a very early age, the easiest thing in the world is to tell the truth, and then you don't have to remember what you said. It has nothing to do with morality, just remembering what you said.

I'm not a Sundance guy either. I've never had applause lasting over two minutes in my life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation.

It's tough to get up in your twenties, tougher in the thirties, your reflexes aren't as good in your forties, in the fifties you're really worried, in your sixties your legs hurt too much and I hit seventy.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

I won't lie. I tried to lie to a girl about my age. She started laughing right in my face and said, "I know more about you than you do." That's not good.

In every place there are 100 people who can say no and only one person who can say yes. You have to get a good piece of material to the right person.