They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone.

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.