"Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"A man should never neglect his family for business"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

"They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood"

"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild"

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing"

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do"

"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress"