Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?

You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.