Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

He leans in closer and closer until his breath caresses my mouth. I’m paralyzed. I swear he’s going to kiss me. I swear I’m going to let him.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You cant get much less sexy, less active than that.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.

A spirit is a great definition for me.