You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

A map, it is said, organizes wonder.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

Kings also sleep; but the clever ones, with one eye open, just like dolphins and whales

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.