Successful Quotes

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.

People are stupid. There’s a lot of dumb stuff that’s successful.

I tell the players that they can’t relive any day in their lives and that they can’t relive the minutes of a game.

One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.

There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.