Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.