I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.

Lighting can bring out certain contours in the body, in the face, in the eyes, that otherwise flat lighting couldn't.

I think everyone has questions in their mind. Did they do their very best?

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

I consider myself something of a raconteur. I have a rather audacious sense of humour.