Irwin Winkler quotes:

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.

When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the 60s.

I found 'Celebrity Gangster' intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

This is certainly not to excuse the violence that exists on TV and films and on the Internet. But the truth is that wherever you go in Europe, there are American films and TV shows that are just as popular as at home. And you don't have that sense of violence in any other place other than America.

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.