You always try to find the right style for the movie. That's the key.

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.