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

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.