I changed my diet completely. You know, I'm from Cleveland, so I've always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It's basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.