We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

If there is such a thing as a lock on an Oscar nomination, ... Hoffman has one.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.

People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.