An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.