If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Nobody, I mean nobody, puts ketchup on a hot dog.

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.