You either care or you don’t.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.