I make movies. I'm not in politics.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.

While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

As soon as you made a decision that time is going to be currency, then it should be a reflection of what's happening today. And obviously, it is.

I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

A schizophrenic war is not an easy thing to deal with.

Our fatal mistake is waiting to be motivated before we take action. Action motivates.

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.

Death's long anabasis.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

Works of art are never finished, just stopped.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.