I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly realized that the best diversion from Bush is to put on a clown show.

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.