Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

You can't coach that. You either have it or not.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

Either he's got a lot of nuns praying for him at St. Joseph's or he's got Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle looking down on him and giving him a great day.

We had our two and three hitters on three times. But, we either missed a sign or made a mental mistake and couldn't come through with a clutch hit. Those are the things we have to get better at.