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.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

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

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

The more I go to church and the more I turn myself over to the process of believing in Jesus and listening to His Word and having Him guide my hand, I feel as though the pressure is off me now.

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification.