I don't believe in pessimism.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

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.

Everybody's got a right to be a sucker ... once.

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.

As you get older, you change certain things.