My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

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.