“You can point to these things, and you can have that assurance.”

It’s very gratifying when that’s what you’re going for, and you can hear the reactions in all the places that you intended.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

If I can make the movies I want, people are going to watch it how they’re going to watch it.

Normally, you have all this knowledge from all the films that you’ve done that you’ve accumulated over the years

I think, as a filmmaker, it’s important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what’s working and what’s not.

And you can constantly look back when you’re in some sort of fix and say, “Well, on so-and-so film, we did this, and it worked out fine.”

If we’re going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

There are only a few genres, horror and comedy, where you can get that immediate feedback from the audience.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation’s future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.

I’d rather be shot by a bullet than to be cut by your words. I’ll die cold on the pavement before I lie in the casket of your assurances.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.