People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.

I've always thought of the western as American storytelling at its best.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I would do my homework, we would have dinner there, she would do her play, and then me and my sister would go home. So I grew up in it that way.

Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.

Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong.

I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.