He's famous for being obsessive about details.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

Our problem is civil obedience

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

Clint Eastwood just runs an incredibly tight ship, but it's really laid back.

I've been left alone, even by the paparazzi, because what sells is sex and scandal. Absent that, they really don't have much interest in you. I'm still married, still working, still happy.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.