If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.

Decisions made in real time are never perfect.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

I don't think we can afford to emulate the beauty editors of fashion magazines, airbrushing out blemishes and hawking a political ideal in which progressive people have no acne, no stupid remarks.

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

For Zen students, a weed is a treasure.