The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.

All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.

I have seen the future of pop music and it is a band called Queen.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

To exist is to adapt and if one could not adapt one died and made room for those who could.

John Logan pretty much does the Woody Allen thing of just bringing people in and meeting them.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much as part of the process as the experiments that work.

My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.

I don't know if anybody can second-guess what they will do on Capitol Hill.

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.