I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest.

And then I bought my own horse, which I had until it died.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.

We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake

I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.

There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah can trust. He can contact these people without first waiting for a sign.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man.

Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume to look at the larger questions.

The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.