I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.