I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.