It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish.

There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'

Making a film is to make sure that everybody looks forward to coming to work.