There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.

I haven't killed anybody all day. Help me keep it that way.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way.

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.