Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

If there's an idea I think is really good and I feel like I can write it, then I'll do it.

The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

If I had a bucket list, I'd say raising my four girls to be strong, good women would be No. 1.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if he sees something that is real to him, he'd look up at the [camera] operator and if he gives the look to indicate he'd seen it to, then you print and you'd move on.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?