"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people."

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

"That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates."

"The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful."

"I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns."

"From where the sun now stands I will fight no more."

"The essence of creativity is the belief that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."