“If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.”

“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”

“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

“Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.”

“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”

“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.”

“Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.”

“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.”