To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.