When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

A good marksman may miss.

I've had everything pierced at some point.

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

A lot of people wonder how a 21-year-old with average power (I finished 89th in driving distance) can be so successful. The answer is simple: I know how to score.

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very appealing to me

Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.