It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation.

Don't see a thing working-see it finished!

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.