- Me, if I can blow up the world in the first ten seconds, the show is a flop.
- Starting a picture, starts with a picture.
- Nightmares are my best source of entertainment.
- I'm not going to run out of disasters. Pick up the daily newspaper -- which is my best source for crisis stories -- and you'll find 10 or 15 every day. People chase fire engines, flock to car crashes. They thrive on tragedy. It's unfortunate, but in my case it's fortunate. The bigger the tragedy, the bigger the audience.
- [on catering to actors] I suffer along with them. We have many story conferences. As a writer/director/producer, I have triple agonies. I'm bucking to be known as the most sympathetic producer in town.
- [on the budget for The Towering Inferno (1974)] Eleven million, one hundred and ten thousand dollars for miniatures? It's only money.
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