When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set... I live in a complete state of grace.

My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.

The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

I rarely do autograph shows. Maybe two or three a year. Just to keep my price up. Also I've got too much other stuff to do. I have to teach Renaissance art.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the heart will never steer you wrong.

If you feel the need to laugh at people's weaknesses, laugh at yours first.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

And sometimes when we listen, we are led into places we do not expect, into adventures we do not always understand.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.