I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

It takes a team to do anything of lasting value

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

And the problem is, I can apologise for the information that turned out to be wrong, but I can't, sincerely at least, apologise for removing Saddam.

Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.