The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.