I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.