I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

Art is a place where you can be wild. Kids-all of us-need that.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

The best movies have one sentence that they're exploring, a thesis, something that people can argue about over dinner afterward.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.