If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.

I worked with him in a way where there was no need to align. We felt and the feeling was simple but complex. It was the intensity in our grasp and when it was done, it was done.

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

I believe I can do things people think are impossible.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather than summarily removing a book from their possession.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.