John Quotes

I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.

There are many, many benefits to being known for whatever it is you do. To deny that would be sort of asinine and vulgar.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

I don't think my parents know what I do.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

I never really did a western western.

I like very much to do movies.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

You have to do things people see or you don't get to do anything.

I don't remember my life before I had children.

I don't mind what I play, really.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

Politics is not really my thing.

Utopia means elsewhere.

Well, I like to have fun at work.

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period.

There's a reason screens are only this thick.

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

I've done quite a few big American films.

It's a little bit hard to have personal things subject to public scrutiny, and it's a pressure that other people aren't under, but then they're under a lot of pressures that we're not under.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

The media can make anything true or untrue. So if you do 80 films and you play a bad guy ten times, then you're a bad guy, and then the media repeats that.

Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.

To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

There's no worse feeling in the world than realizing the play you've directed doesn't work.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

Life's harder, the deeper you feel things.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Never cry over something that can't cry over you.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.

Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

Blame it on Peer Pressure.