You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

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

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.