I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and [Kirk Douglas] is the only movie star I ever met.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.