When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and take risks. You're happy that you get to watch them at the monitor and that your name is on the director's chair.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

There is currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency... You can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.

You don't know what the pattern of flour and chicken is going to be, but you know you're going to get some good fried chicken.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!