For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

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

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

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

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.