The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.