You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.

Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

Florida is a very healing place.

I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

All you really have in the end are your stories.

If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.