I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

I believe we need heroes...we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I don't blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, likeI had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.