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.

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

As you get older, you change certain things.

I can't do that to myself...

When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.