In Stand by Me, I realized that what I was creating was going to live on far longer than anything of me as a person. The characters are more powerful than the person that creates them.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

I feel that there are great minds up there who would like to see what I can do with an Oscar nomination. I guess many people would change after a nomination in…

When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can't mold an image or try to be something that y…

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, wh…

His formidable originality within the picture-book convention may not have been altogether apparent to Keeping himself, which is both a strength and a weakness…

People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the tr…