I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, she was the type of girl I would desperately fight for to stay.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

I was just an okay person.

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

You will go most safely in the middle.