The buffalo didn't belong to anybody. If you could kill them, what they brought was yours. They were walking gold pieces.
Within the Universal deal, we've always felt like an independent act. We've never been told what to do. We've used their resources to our own design.
One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
I'm sick of voting blank checks.
Reacting to the appropriations for the Works Progress Administration, a writer quoted the late Speaker:
We have full creative control, we have a giant audience that loves what we do, and we can make whatever we want.
There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.
Sometimes I feel like a 16-year-old who's got a blank check.
If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are.
I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.
Never give an artist like me carte blanche: he would think it's simply toilet paper.