Society is at odds with itself.

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.

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.

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.