I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

All young men want to prove themselves.

You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul.

When I'm doing a movie, I eat the same thing every day. For lunch, it's tuna salad or chicken salad and cole slaw. That's it. For dinner it's either veal and rice, fish and rice or steak and rice. It gets boring; boy, does it get boring.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.