A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with it's very important.

If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.

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.

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.

If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.