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

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.

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

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.

The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

We don't need a "New Covenant." We need a new Congress.

A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.