You asked me my favorite question: What happened and what did you learn from being under contract to MGM? And the answer is I know how to make movies. I understand how to do that. I've been doing that my whole life. It's just easier to raise the money yourself and then hire yourself. It's possible if you reduce your own budget a little.

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.

Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You’re not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You’re there to entertain.

I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

This is a business that I have always had the last laugh in.It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with good karma.

John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola and Oliver Stone - those guys are consummate filmmakers. They believe that you don't talk it, you show it. So when I find a role now, I try to find a visual way to tell what the character is about rather than trying to speak about it.