But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my 20s and 30s. No Botox for me.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.