If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

You come to work knowing you're going to do good work without any doubt. You can go where you need to go and nothing is wrong and you pick the rightnesses out. If something doesn't work, you let them go, but you don't hold onto those wrongnesses. You just hold onto the rightnesses, so it's a playing field that anyone would want and feel much more comfortable with.