In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

I went from being Mario who? to Mario baby!

I'm not in business to make money.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario, ' and 'Mario Who?'

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

How should we Democrats select the next presidential nominee? Smoke filled rooms? Brokered convention? National primary? Personally, I prefer jump shots from the top of the key.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

I love getting a smile out of my girlfriend - that makes me feel like I'm seen, or heard.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.