I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back

My two daughters live on Facebook and social media is their mode of communication.

Nothings wrong with honest emotion.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

I think I've inherited a kind ofwillfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Life is a very emotional experience.

Killing is for those with a sick mind.

To hope is to enjoy.

All I can think is that when you torment a person...the soul dies. When the soul dies, I suppose mercy dies, too.

There comes a point where the disappointments in your life accrue faster than you can find external forces to blame them on.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

You cant beat The Beatles, you join em.

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.