I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide.

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.