bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.