You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

When people are nasty, it gets everybody's attention, and it gives them a name.

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.