If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

I have a lot of faith in people.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife