I can't give you 150 takes. I can't even give you 30 different ways of doing it! I don't have the talent or the range for it.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

If we dig deep in our history and remember that we are not descendants from fearful people, we proclaim ourselves indeed as we are the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world.

People know everything about everybody now.

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?'

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

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