When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.

We know what the surface of the moon is better than we know what the surface of the sea floor is.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.