I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.