I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner it's really like making a large chicken.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling the darker blinder strata of character are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making and directly perceive how events happen and how work is actually done.

It took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get to where we are today but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root and men are making no effort to discover it.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector women at the top - C-level jobs board seats - tops out at fifteen sixteen per cent.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization but I think it holds in many ways.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

Yes it's a man's world but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task but it's not.

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18 so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

There are two ways of lying. One not telling the truth and the other making up statistics.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything making everything vulgar and every truth false.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks you can build instant trust even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it's making cold calls to strangers. Actually it's the people who already have strong trust relationships with you who know you're dedicated smart a team player who can help you.

Well first of all making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

I love actors both my parents were actors and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

As an alcoholic you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.