I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.

There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.

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

I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything.

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

Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.