The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

You have to be really loyal to the people that supported you when you were coming up.

If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.

To know that the odds are so high that only through the perishing of your life will the minions survive, that's love. That's heroism.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

I do believe that American should deal from strength.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.