Im fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibsons extraordinary work The Passion of the Christ were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life.

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.