My motto is: more good times.

There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

I am in an age group where it is rude to discuss money, and now it is all anyone cares about.

A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.