Things always look different from higher up.

Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

I became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.