[But he earned particular attention in Hollywood for his tenacity in making the grand-scale] A Passage to India, ... the most difficult thing of my life.

People will give away almost anything in charity, but their unadultrated attention must be earned.

I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.