I'd like to make a great movie. I've made many movies. I think I've made some good movies, but I never felt I've made a great movie.

In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.