If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

I don't say any word that I don't approve.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

You might meet a guy who turns out to be the best guy you've worked with. They don't have to be some name brand person. I've met a lot of lower level actors and directors who were terrific; that are as good as any other A level director or actor, they just don't get the recognition. So I'm happy working with anybody who wants to show up to play the game and has a clue.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.