Things always look different from higher up.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

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

A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up.

I don't believe in pessimism.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.