I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.